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title: Job 33:31 (JPS 1917) — Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me; hold thy peace, and I will speak. · tree and pragmatics
description: Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me; hold thy peace, and I will speak. Who acts: you, I, thy. Job 33:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 33:31 · JPS 1917

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Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me; hold thy peace, and I will speak.

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**Who acts:** you, I, thy · **What happens:** mark, hearken, hold, speak, pacify · **To what, where:** peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 33:31 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, thy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JOB:875
# text = Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me; hold thy peace, and I will speak.
1	Mark	Mark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me; Job *vocative* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pacify** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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הַקְשֵׁ֖ב אִיּ֥וֹב שְֽׁמַֽע־לִ֑י הַ֝חֲרֵ֗שׁ וְאָנֹכִ֥י אֲדַבֵּֽר׃

[Job 33:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.31/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:875` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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